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Add flexible, high-performance FTP file transfer to your apps.
Current version: 1.1
Platform: ActiveX
Price: $399.95 royalty-free
ActiveX Technology
  • A single fully self-contained COM object and ActiveX control written with ATL 3.0.
  • Requires no external DLLs, MFC DLLs, or runtime libraries other than Winsock-2, which is found on all Windows operating systems after Windows 95 revision A.
  • Both single-threaded (STA) and multi-threaded apartment (MTA) model design.
  • Instantiate the component dynamically without putting it on a form.
  • Supports multiple instances running simultaneously.
  • Optional background processing so your code can continue execution while Xceed FTP Library is working.
  • Supports both Unicode and ANSI in one single control. The library automatically uses Unicode API calls for best performance when running on Windows NT, 2000, or XP.
  • Supports notification by events or by custom interface advising for maximum efficiency.
  • ActiveX control interface has all constants, enumerations, and types built-in. Code completion, property categories, help strings, and context-sensitive F1 help fully supported.
  • Works with all 32-bit development environments that can use ActiveX controls, including VB, VC++, Delphi, C++ Builder, VFP, Office, PB, VO, Web scripting languages, ASP, and DCOM projects.
  • Optional ability to function as an AIC (Application Integration Component) for BizTalk Server.
FTP support and major operations
  • RFC 959, 1123, and 1579 compliant.
  • Fully uses Winsock-2 optimizations for best performance.
  • SOCKS Firewall Proxy support for performing FTP operations across Intranet firewalls.
  • Passive mode.
  • Supports all standard FTP commands as well as custom FTP commands.
  • Send and receive files to/from disk or directly to/from memory buffers.
  • Send, receive, or list entire directory structures recursively.
  • QuickFTP interface for transfering one or more files with only a single line of code.
  • Server directory listings are available through events or via easy-to-manipulate item collections.
  • Automatic directory listing parser or create your own custom parser for unknown listing formats.
  • Resume file transfers from any offset.
  • Streaming support. Send or receive data as it becomes available.
  • Rename or change file paths as they are being sent or received.
  • Automatic logging of FTP activity.
Application-component interactivity
  • Operations can be aborted at any time.
  • Provides status report events on a file-by-file basis as well as on the entire operation being performed, with percentages, byte, and file counts. Easily add any kind of progress bar to your app.
  • Events are triggered whenever a file is being sent, received, listed, etc.
  • Notifies your application when and why a specific file cannot be processed.
  • Notifies your application when a file being received is about to overwrite an existing file. Your application can then choose to overwrite it or skip it.
  • Provides complete file information for the current file being processed.
  • Your application receives info such as the amount of time a file took to transfer, the achieved transfer rate, and other info as it becomes available.
  • Create your own custom filters in order to process or exclude files based on size or date.
  • Automatic full yield so other applications do not halt during processing.
Other operations
  • Specify FTP server as IP address or host name.
  • Keep Alive capability with settable interval to ensure FTP server does not disconnect client due to inactivity.
  • Allows sending files that are currently open for write operations by other processes.
  • Supports long filenames, UNC paths, and Unicode filenames.
  • Specify files to process using wildcards.
Documentation and samples
  • Complete, comprehensive documentation provided in an MSDN-style HTML format which is fully context-sensitive so that pressing F1 on a keyword in your IDE opens up the manual to the relevant topic.
  • Fully commented sample applications for various languages, including VB, Delphi, Visual C++, and Active Server Pages.